OC is committed to your success and personal enrichment. Take classes, earn certificates or two-year degrees, apply to one of OC's four-year programs, or work with one of the college's university partners.

OC enriches our diverse communities through quality education and student support. With three campuses spanning Kitsap and Mason counties, OC provides the options to serve these areas and every point in between.

OC is committed to your success and personal enrichment. Take classes, earn certificates or two-year degrees, apply to one of OC's four-year programs, or work with one of the college's university partners.

OC enriches our diverse communities through quality education and student support. With three campuses spanning Kitsap and Mason counties, OC provides the options to serve these areas and every point in between.

OC Nominated for Aspen Prize

Office of the President

I am proud to announce that Olympic College was named as one of ten finalists for the Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, the nation’s preeminent recognition of high achievement and
performance in America’s community colleges.

The Prize, awarded every two years, recognizes outstanding institutions selected from an original pool of more than 1,000 community colleges. With a singular focus on student success, the Prize assesses community colleges’ achievements in four areas: student learning, certificate and degree completion, high rates of employment and earnings for graduates, and
high levels of access and success for minority and low-income students. Olympic College was selected as a finalist because:

Olympic College does an exceptional job meeting the growing demand for higher education in its community and among its students, over two-thirds of whom are the first in their families to attend college,” said Josh Wyner, Executive Director of the Aspen Institute’s College Excellence Program in Washington, D.C. “With graduation rates on the rise and programs aligned to workforce needs, Olympic is showing how concerted, college-wide efforts can deliver what students need most.

Olympic College stands out as one of the nation’s top community colleges for many reasons, including:

Steadily improving retention of some of the least academically prepared students (retention rate—57%compared to 52% nationally)

Close ties with local industry reflected in dozens of programs in skilled trades, from which 90% of students complete and 100% are placed in jobs.

Strong, well-established pathways to a bachelor’s degree, including a collaborative engineering program at Olympic College in Bremerton.

Olympic College will now enter the last stage of the competition for the $1 million prize fund that will be awarded in March 2015 in Washington, D.C. to the winner and up to four finalists-with-distinction.

Olympic College is very proud of this recognition of our collective efforts to make our community college one of the best in the nation!